Connie Smith - Po' Folks Lyrics

Lyrics Po' Folks - Connie Smith



There's a whole lotta people lookin' down their noses at me
Cause I didn't come from a wealthy family
There was ten of us livin' in a two room shack
On the banks of the river by the railroad track
We kept chickens in a pen in the back
And everybody said we was po' folks
My daddy was a farmer but all he ever raised was us
Dug a forty foot well struck thirty-six gallons of dust
Salvation Army give us clothes to wear
A man from the county came to cut our hair
We lived next door to a millionare
But we wadn't nothin' but po' folks
We was po' folks livin' in a rich folks world
We sure was a hungry bunch
If the wolf had ever come to our front door
He'd've had to brought a picnic lunch
My grandaddy's pension was a dollar and thirty-three cents
That was ten dollar less than the landlord wanted for rent
The landlord's letters got nasty indeed
He wrote get out but pa couldn't read
And we was too broke to even pay heed
But that's how it is when you're po' folks
We was po' folks livin' in a rich folks world
We sure was a hungry bunch
If the wolf had ever come to our front door
He'd've had to brought a picnic lunch
But we had something in our house money can't buy
Kept us warm in the winter cool when the sun was high
For whenever we didn't have food enough
And the howlin' winds would get pretty rough
We patched the cracks and set the table with love
Cause that's what you do when you're po' folks
And we wadn't nothin' but po' folks
My mom and my dad was po' folks
My brother and my sister was po' folks
My dog and my cat was po' folks
And even the po' folks was po' folks



Writer(s): Bill Anderson


Connie Smith - RCA Sessions (1965-1972)
Album RCA Sessions (1965-1972)
date of release
01-06-2018

1 Holdin' On - Alternate Take
2 Everybody's Gotta Be Somewhere
3 Po' Folks
4 Four Walls
5 You and Only You
6 Pas Souvent
7 J'imaginals Autrement L'amour
8 Le Jour Et La Nuit
9 L'Amour N'excuse Pas
10 I'll Come Running - Alt Mix 1
11 I'll Come Running - Alt Mix 2
12 I Love You Enough (For Both of Us) - Alt Take
13 Only for Me
14 I'll Come Running - Single Version
15 Walk Through This World with Me
16 I'd Rather Be a Fool
17 Burning a Hole In My Mind - Alt Take
18 Haunted Heart
19 The Twelfth of Never
20 I'm So Glad
21 I Don't Want Your Memories (I Just Want You)
22 I Love You More and More Every Day - Alt Take
23 My Heart Was the Last One to Know
24 Sweet Memory
25 Take Me Back
26 I'm Sorry If Love Got In Your Way
27 Blue, Blue Day
28 If I Could Just Get Over You
29 Love Is The Look You're Looking For
30 Dream Painter
31 Here Comes My Baby
32 Just a Little Bit of You
33 Turn Your Radio On
34 If You Leave Me Tonight I'll Cry
35 I Ain't Never
36 What Ain't to Be, Just Might Happen
37 All the Praises
38 He's All I Got
39 Country Girl
40 Until My Dreams Come True
41 Someone to Give My Love To




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